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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to%20number%20or%20not%20to%20number/near/168954993" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to.20number.20or.20not.20to.20number.html#168954993">(Jun 25 2019 at 16:48)</a>:</h4>
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<p>the other option is not to number at all, but IMO that makes it harder to tell what's going on</p>
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<p>mm I'm doing some of the renaming right now and I'm not sure if this is a win :) i.e., it feels like for the source examples at least, it might be nice to not have numbers</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to%20number%20or%20not%20to%20number/near/168955021" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to.20number.20or.20not.20to.20number.html#168955021">(Jun 25 2019 at 16:49)</a>:</h4>
<p>broke this out into a separate topic so as not to distract</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to%20number%20or%20not%20to%20number/near/168955025" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to.20number.20or.20not.20to.20number.html#168955025">(Jun 25 2019 at 16:49)</a>:</h4>
<p>for now I'll preserve the numbering</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to%20number%20or%20not%20to%20number/near/168955029" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Taylor Cramer <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to.20number.20or.20not.20to.20number.html#168955029">(Jun 25 2019 at 16:49)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="116009">@nikomatsakis</span> okay! I'm easily convinced of that point</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to%20number%20or%20not%20to%20number/near/168955039" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Taylor Cramer <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to.20number.20or.20not.20to.20number.html#168955039">(Jun 25 2019 at 16:49)</a>:</h4>
<p>it seems like it has a really high maintenance cost</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to%20number%20or%20not%20to%20number/near/168955052" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Taylor Cramer <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to.20number.20or.20not.20to.20number.html#168955052">(Jun 25 2019 at 16:49)</a>:</h4>
<p>as does linking to specific line #s for example code :(</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to%20number%20or%20not%20to%20number/near/168955074" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Taylor Cramer <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to.20number.20or.20not.20to.20number.html#168955074">(Jun 25 2019 at 16:50)</a>:</h4>
<p>unfortunately I have no idea how to do that better without building a new thing</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to%20number%20or%20not%20to%20number/near/168955170" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/to.20number.20or.20not.20to.20number.html#168955170">(Jun 25 2019 at 16:51)</a>:</h4>
<p>yeah</p>



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